Federal Communications Commission DA 14-1114
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
Adams Cable Equipment, Inc.
Petition for Reconsideration of Adams Cable 
Equipment, Inc.
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CSR-8537-Z
CS Docket No. 97-80
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Adopted:  July 31, 2014 Released:  July 31, 2014
By the Senior Deputy Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau:
1. On July 26, 2013, the Media Bureau (“Bureau”) adopted and released a Memorandum 
Opinion and Order (“ACE Waiver Order”) granting “a limited, conditional waiver of the ban on 
deploying set-top boxes with integrated security” to third-party cable operators that leased integrated set-
top boxes refurbished by Adams Cable Equipment, Inc. (“ACE”).1 In addition to limiting the number of 
integrated set-top boxes that ACE could sell, the ACE Waiver Order required “ACE to file 6-month and 
12-month reports… detail[ing] the number of devices sold directly to consumers as opposed to cable 
operators.”2 The deadlines for filing the six-month and twelve-month reports took effect “from the date 
on which [ACE made] its first sale subject to” the ACE Waiver Order.3
2. On July 3, 2014, ACE filed its six-month report with the Commission.4 Accompanying 
ACE’s six-month report was ACE’s Motion to Accept Late-Filed Report (“Motion”).5 The Motion stated 
that ACE sold its first device subject to the ACE Waiver Order in August 2013, which established 
February 2014 as the deadline to file its six-month report.6 In addition to requesting that the Commission 
accept ACE’s late-filed six-month report, the Motion asked that the deadline for ACE’s twelve-month 
report be pushed to January 12, 2015, so that it could “include data through December 31, 2014.”7
3. ACE’s Motion states that the “public has not been materially harmed by [ACE’s] 
omission because only a very small number of set-top boxes have been sold to cable operators.”8  
  
1 Adams Cable Equipment, Inc. Request for Waiver of Section 76.1204(a)(1) of the Commission’s Rules, 
Memorandum Opinion and Order, 28 FCC Rcd 11011, ¶ 1 (MB 2013).   See also 47 C.F.R. § 76.1204(a)(1).  The 
separation of the security element from the basic navigation device required by this rule is referred to as the 
“integration ban.”
2 Id. at 11015, ¶ 5.
3 Id. at 11018, ¶ 7.
4 Adams Cable Equipment, Inc. Request for Waiver of Section 76.1204(a)(1) of the Commission’s Rules, Report, 
CSR-8537-Z (filed July 3, 2014) (“Report”).
5 Adams Cable Equipment, Inc. Request for Waiver of Section 76.1204(a)(1) of the Commission’s Rules, Motion to 
Accept Late-Filed Report, CSR-8537-Z (filed July 3, 2014).
6 See id. at 1.
7 Id. at 2.
8 Motion at 1.
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Moreover, we find that the four-month delay in ACE’s reporting did not materially affect the public 
interest benefits that the Bureau found in the ACE Waiver Order.9 We therefore decline to revoke the 
conditioned waiver set forth in the ACE Waiver Order.  We caution ACE to diligently meet its next 
reporting deadline.
4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that ACE’s Motion to Accept Late-Filed Report is 
granted.  As a result, ACE’s six-month report is accepted, and the deadline for ACE’s report containing 
data through December 31, 2014, is extended to January 12, 2015.10
5. This action is taken pursuant to authority delegated by Section 0.283 of the 
Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.283. 
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Steven A. Broeckaert
Senior Deputy Chief, Policy Division
Media Bureau
  
9 ACE Waiver Order, 28 FCC Rcd at 11015-8, ¶¶ 6-7.
10 We note that nothing in this Memorandum Opinion and Order should be construed to impact ACE’s Petition for
Reconsideration of Adams Cable Equipment, Inc., which is still pending.  See Adams Cable Equipment, Inc. 
Request for Waiver of Section 76.1204(a)(1) of the Commission’s Rules, Petition for Reconsideration of Adams 
Cable Equipment, Inc., CSR-8537-Z (filed August 16, 2013).